Neurorecovery Program

Posted By Arizona Center for Advanced Medicine || 1-Nov-2017

Neurorecovery program - Specifics

Treatment is office based, every day for 10 ‐ 13 consecutive days (duration
depending on the specific drugs you have been taking) – including
Fridays and week‐ends.

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You will be in the office between 6 and 8 hours per day, depending on your response to the amino acids. You will receive each
day an intravenous cocktail of vitamins, minerals, glutathione, and a
specific blend of amino acids (depending on your current drug use) that
will help repair the damaged receptors in your brain. It’s a question
of healing the receptors.

‐ Most withdrawal symptoms will be very diminished starting with day one,
and more than likely completely gone after the first 2‐3 days.

‐ Most drugs require about 10 days for completion of withdrawal and restoration
of sense of well‐being.
Benzodiazepines (anti‐anxiety medications) require about 13 days –
the cravings are seldom seen with benzodiazepines, but neurotransmitter
receptor damage may be extensive, explaining the prolonged withdrawal symptoms.

What withdrawal symptoms should you expect?

‐ With benzodiazepines, there is no particular craving, you just can’t
get out of bed when you are in withdrawal. And the withdrawal goes on
for a VERY long time, depending on how damaged your neurotransmitter receptors are.

‐ With many of the other drugs, withdrawal may be VERY intense if you do
it on your own, but is significantly diminished with the therapy, and
is usually no longer a factor after the first 2‐3 days.

The only two requirements for success in the program are:

First, an Intense and overriding desire to quit the drug/pharmaceutical,
together with having made a
core decision to do so.

Second, to
stop taking any drugs by the first day of therapy. If withdrawal symptoms are extreme, you may take the drugs on day one
of therapy, but not beyond. If you are already off the drugs, therapy
may go more quickly.

Drugs to stop will include ANY psychotropic drugs in ANY category. Nutrient
therapy will be restoring the neurotransmitters and their receptors starting
with day 1, so there is hardly ever any significant physical withdrawal.
For benzodiazepines and alcohol we sometimes use Dilantin® prophylactically
for 2‐3 days, to lessen the chance of withdrawal seizures. With nicotine
withdrawal, we sometimes use extra vitamin B3, nicotinic acid, for a few days.

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The formulas infused will be specific to you, depending on what drugs/pharmaceuticals that you have been taking. It
is important that we are clear on what drugs we are treating.

‐ Benzodiazepine withdrawal typically requires 13 consecutive days of treatment
– longer than for most of the other drugs. You will most likely
start to “wake up” and feel better by day 4 or 5 of the treatment.

What is the treatment setting?

You may have treatment in our main IV room, if you like chatting with people.
That may not be your favorite activity during the first few days of withdrawal.
You may also have a private room if you prefer.

‐ Be sure to bring something to do, and some food.

‐ Plan to stop all the psychiatric drugs and pain medicines either the
day before you start treatment

(preferably) or on day 1 of treatment.

There are specific supplements to take after the 10‐13 day treatment is
completed, to continue the process of healing of the neurotransmitter
receptors. It is essential to take these, so that true healing may occur.

What if I backslide?

Should any recurrence of cravings or other symptoms occur, it is both easy
and effective to do a one or two day “booster” treatment to
get you back on track. It is, of course, best if you have the booster
within a day or two of noticing any recurring symptoms, so as to avoid
backsliding.

What is the cost of the withdrawal protocol

Cost of the treatment is $10,000 to $13,000, about $1000 per day.

If you pay the whole thing in one payment, there is a 20% discount.

More than one payment is, of course, an option and carries a different
discount with increasing numbers of payments.

You may, of course, stop the treatment at any point, if you decide that
it is not the right thing for you. Please note that once the medications
have been ordered, there will be no refunds, since these medications are
specific to your needs, not anyone else’s.

Please let us know if you have questions, or just call to talk about the protocol or to schedule. We require about
three days to get the medications, and we prefer to schedule starting
on a Monday. Payment arrangements are made in advance, before your intravenous
medications are ordered.

Give us a call at 480‐240‐2600 to schedule a free 15‐minute phone consultation with Dr.

Grout, so that you can decide whether this plan is for you, and so that
we can together decide whether you are a good candidate for successful
withdrawal.